Lingua ex machina : reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain / William H. Calvin, Derek Bickerton.
2000
QP399 .C35 2000
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Title
Lingua ex machina : reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain / William H. Calvin, Derek Bickerton.
Author
Calvin, William H., 1939-
Uniform Title
CogNet library.
ISBN
9780262316132 (electronic bk.)
0262316137 (electronic bk.)
9780262032735
0262032732 (Trade Cloth)
0262531984 (pbk.)
9780262531986 (pbk.)
0262316137 (electronic bk.)
9780262032735
0262032732 (Trade Cloth)
0262531984 (pbk.)
9780262531986 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
QP399 .C35 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.8/2
Summary
"A proper lingua ex machina would be a language machine capable of nesting phrases and clauses inside one another, complete with evolutionary pedigree. Such circuitry for structured thought might also facilitate creative shaping up of quality (figuring out what to do with the leftovers in the refrigerator), contingency planning, procedural games, logic, and even music. And enhancing structural thought might give intelligence a big boost. Solve the cerebral circuitry for syntax, and you might solve them all." "William Calvin and Derek Bickerton offer three ways for getting from ape behaviors to syntax. They focus on the transition from simple word association in short sentences (proto-language) to longer recursively structural sentences (requiring syntax). They are after invention via sidesteps (Darwinian conversions of function), not straight-line gradual improvements."--Jacket.
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"A Bradford book."
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Bickerton, Derek.
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